Vampire Crab, The Best Pet Crustacean?

[@ClintsReptiles]

Big thanks to Ridge for sending me this wallet and supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! > ridge.com/clint & use code CLINT

[@chrisgaming9567]

Could you do some more reviews of aquatic/marine animals?

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

🐉🐲Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Origins and the Inspirations of the Reptiles in Myths, such as Dragons, Wyverns, the Loch Ness Monster, Sea Serpents, Nagas, the Hydra, the Leviathan, the Amphisbaena, the Cockatrice, the Basilisk, Medusa The Gorgon, Typhon, Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent God, Etc. on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!🐉🐲⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@chrisgaming9567]

@@HassanMohamed-jy4kk Honestly, I don't think that's a good idea. A lot of those require a lot of careful research to understand properly, specifically involving certain fields that these kinds of youtube channels are usually bad at understanding.

[@EmpressOfExile206]

I'm almost positive you have moon crabs not vampire crabs Clint! They are usually mislabeled and sold as vamps but they're different lol.. They're pretty hard to tell apart but if you research it I think you might reach the same conclusion!

[@ClintsReptiles]

​@@EmpressOfExile206Gecarcinus lateralis? No, these are definitely not those. Similar colors, but very different in size and shape.

[@JohnTrasher]

They reproduce like crazy... and are capable to survive on Vegetation only! I had a hidden survivor for months in my vivarium. Now its overtaken 😂

[@alberttarovsky7634]

Do NOT give them too much bugs, fishes or meat to eat. They may die for this.

[@rylandrc]

A single survivor reproduced? How?

[@thehermitthetower1126]

​@@rylandrclife Uh Finds a way In this case, she was already gravid, laid eggs and the kids went all family style

[@JohnTrasher]

@@thehermitthetower1126 exactly that was the case...

[@rylandrc]

@@thehermitthetower1126 That's one lucky postmortem father.

[@KingKyrool]

I think you forgot a fact about crabs. They are attracted to raves. As soon as you get a glowstick out and start the music, there will be millions of them all of a sudden.

[@malusignatius]

"Filial Cannibal Crab" is the name of my Nu-Metal band.

[@SoliRhymesWithJulie]

as someone who wanted to be a marine biologist in my youth, I am so sad I didn't know about these crabs until today. Possibly the cutest crabs around.

[@bjorn-falkoandreas9472]

People forgot how much Jacques Cousteau meant to a whole generation

[@danm8004]

They aren't marine creatures, so no harm done.

[@lemonlordminecraft]

The Red-deviled Vampire Crabs are my favourite animals, total. The fact that one is named "Geosarma Larsi" after a photograher (Lars Fernahlt) that first photographed them is awesome to me.

[@lemonlordminecraft]

I spelled Geosesarma wrong. This is why I stayed out of biology.

[@SpanishArmadaProd]

shut up

[@Harrysreptarium]

you can edit comments@@lemonlordminecraft

[@biggusdickus2166]

i got 6 recently. I had the paludarium(an 18 inch cube) set up for 2 months beforehand. one died within 2 days, but the other 5 have settled in, and have shed their skins. Hoping for children soon. Underated thing about paladariums is watching the plants go crazy

[@justdoinit2378]

Well you do know a lot of animals get their names from the person to find them n stuff like that.

[@ClintsReptiles]

The grand opening of Clint's Reptile Room is two weeks from today! Tickets are still available: clintsreptiles.com/grand-opening/ We hope to see you real soon!

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

🐉🐲Hey Clint, Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Origins and the Inspirations of the Reptiles in Myths, such as Dragons, Wyverns, the Loch Ness Monster, Sea Serpents, Nagas, the Hydra, the Leviathan, the Amphisbaena, the Cockatrice, the Basilisk, Medusa The Gorgon, Typhon, Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent God, Etc. on the next Clint’s Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!🐉🐲⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@1mrcow143]

@@HassanMohamed-jy4kkthat would be cool

[@Supercarfest-j3e]

You should do pumpkin patch tarantula next! 🎃

[@MLPdraedek]

Clint: “Handle them with care” Vampire Crab: WEEEEEEE

[@denisek3078]

Lol

[@mauzawa]

I love that Clint compliments the animals when they jump, he genuinely seems fascinated with them

[@shroomyk]

Clint always finds a way to make me love things I didn't care about before. Never been a huge crab fan, except for eating. But these crabs are stinkin rad. The colors alone made me fall in love.

[@HidaAtarasi]

As an older hobbyist, I’m familiar with Red Claw and Fiddler crabs, but while they were hardy and terribly attractive, particularly fiddler crabs, extremely difficult to breed in captivity, given that they’re terrestrial adults with larvae who live in brackish river deltas with cyclic salinity shifts.

[@wynnnnnnn5227]

That sounds like a nightmare environ to simulate.

[@nerodia]

Clint, if you're interested in doing an episode on an actual vampire, Asian buffalo leeches have a base of keepers. The feeding is apparently either very messy (edible pig blood from butcher/store) or, well, very personal.

[@muscleandhate]

I really wanted a medicinal leech as a pet but couldn't find anywhere that would sell me one :( am in uk

[@katthedragonhoarder9871]

@@muscleandhate Last year someone was selling leeches at the IHS show. Not 100% sure if they were medicinal leeches but they were a decent size so there’s def some in the hobby here in the UK!

[@Alatreon2435]

...very personal??????

[@GothicPunkChicky]

@@Alatreon2435 Letting them feed on the owners blood directly from the source

[@36cowboysintotalatramranch]

@@Alatreon2435yeah I feed mine on my nutsack

[@TheRexisFern]

My word, such beautiful animals! Immense appreciation to Clint and the team for bringing such a charmer to our attention!

[@annikachristensen4323]

I love how you just casually reported temperature parameters in KELVINS lol

[@ClintsReptiles]

So it's October. Can you guess what video comes out next week?? 🎃

[@PlaguedByEarth]

Jackolantern, The Best Pet Ghost?

[@ClintsReptiles]

​@@PlaguedByEarthgood guess, but tragically no.

[@rynnightshade]

Animal skeletons

[@xBloodxFangx]

Oh please talk about the new snail skeletons out. 😂

[@rynnightshade]

Michael's has some amazingly bad skeletons this year

[@JustAFace_InTheCrowd]

I love how they have a permanent, mildly-aggressive look in their eyes that kinda says, “What’re you looking at? I am smol but mighty- I will destroy you!” Just absolutely precious. 🥰😂

[@TheUfaraV2]

Its like they are stuck in New Jersey mode.

[@InternetStrangerThatCanRead]

*in a small squeaky voice* FEAR ME! DON'T CUDDLE ME I WILL PINCH YOU!

[@nmci8959]

THANK YOU!! Been waiting for you to do a video on these awesome little guys for years, theyre pratically the perfect pet for bioactive setups; come in a wide range of colors, play nice with anything they cant fit in their mouths(which is alot, being so tiny!), act as their own clean-up crew and gardeners, and breed like crazy! Even seen videos of these guys being kept with small active lizards and frogs; all of which were still breeding!

[@withlessAsbestos]

Butterflies are my favorite Crustaceans to Keep personally.

[@gbezo1539]

What type of enclosure do you use ? That would be really cool

[@KRDecade2009]

“Water should be basic.” On my way to find enough pumpkin spice flavored water that’ll last the year

[@ilovefish9458]

You gotta do Halloween crabs! Happy spoopy season!

[@hayleyspurin8286]

The way he smiled when he said “they might eat their offspring”…

[@ericcarr1648]

Clint has got to be the most likeable guy in this awesome reptile keepers world. He leaves me smiling every time. Lol

[@soogymoogi]

Two tarantula suggestions for spooky month - Hapolopus sp Columbia "Pumpkin Patch" (dwarf new world tarantula) and Ephebopus uatuman (Emerald Skeleton tarantula, a fossorial/burrowing new world tarantula that makes really cool web tunnels!) Or maybe diving beetles or other aquatic insects - I know a couple places have started selling them

[@SockyNoob]

Yet another arthropod I've been wanting to see reviewed. Beautiful and cute yet fiesty little gremlins. They have the goofy expression of a cicada, which is my second favorite animal of all time. I was definitely making the same "Awwwwww" and kissing noises watching this video the same way I do seeing my favorite animals sooooooo yeah.

[@justdoinit2378]

Kissing noises? Wth 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@malijudah6312]

The purple one looks beautiful, it hurts watching from Australia knowing I'll probably never own one of these little guys. Awesome video as always Clint

[@zane01235]

We have spiders. Grab yourself a friendly huntsman, they make awesome roommates

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

Don't feel too bad, you might not have these guys..but you do have all those venemous critters and unending swarms of disgusting flies. Dont know why that would not make you happy? lol.

[@mittenista]

You guys have all sorts of things that are cool and rare outside of Australia tho. Like Children's pythons - it's really hard, if not impossible, to get any morphs aside from the wild type in the rest of the world.

[@aaronburkeen6409]

That does suck. But atleast most of the most popular reptiles in the hobby come from Australia so your not missing out too much. Also you could probably find an Australian equivalent to keep. I imagine there's lots of cool crabs there.

[@BassSaxEnjoyer]

You should totally do an episode on halloween crabs! There like the big brother of vampire crabs

[@scottpaddlety8741]

They're

[@Phantomphan613]

​@@scottpaddlety8741🤓🤡

[@Melisski]

I’ve never heard of Halloween crabs before and I just looked it up. Thank you for bringing their existence to my attention. Apparently I should start paying more attention to crabs! lol

[@BassSaxEnjoyer]

@@Melisskiglad i could enlighten you. They are awesome!

[@s.t.a.r.d.u.s.t.8]

''Now you know how Arwen fellt'' 🤣🤣

[@sydhenderson6753]

Good advice on the lid in case they turn into bats or smoke. Cute little bats, though.

[@dier7144]

That’s cool and all but what we really need is for Clint to make an episode about carsinization

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

Everything is crab!!!!!

[@ThKiwi]

Yes yes yes yes yes!!

[@captainleonox3818]

The optimal shape among crustaceans!

[@warotopelta1150]

Also, would it be possible to provide an “example enclosure” as a reference for the “Best pets?” series? We can get a better idea of what to do, and for the unreasonable one it would be hilarious.

[@badsamaritan8223]

One time, as my dad was taking a jumping spider outside, he let the intrusive thoughts win, and rapidly jostled his cupped hands, and the jumping spider bit him. I was like "Why TF would you do that?" I'm convinced he is the only person to ever get bitten by a jumping spider.

[@Spooderpods]

I think they look absolutely amazing critter wise! The name just makes them cooler to me!

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

Thank you, Clint! Those are actually some really cool-looking little crabs!

[@BenjaminMellor]

You've got to do an episode called "Lobster, The Best Crustacean?". I think it would be worth collaborating with Brady Brandwood since he has kept a lobster for nearly 2 years.

[@aaronburkeen6409]

That would be so dope. That reminds me I should check back in on Leon see how his been.

[@BenjaminMellor]

​@@aaronburkeen6409Well, I've been keeping up with Brady Brandwood, and Leon is still doing well.

[@derp_dragons]

I'm surprised at how much joy the Arwen reference gave me but I'm taking it! :D Vampire crabs are the Jumping spiders of the Crustaceans. Too pretty, too cute, to lose them so quickly.

[@TheChickwithguns]

I owned hermit crabs as a kid…the one pet my dad didn’t complain about (I had a lot of pets that were not free of smell). I was bitten by one crab I bought in South Padre. It is definitely painful.😄 These videos are fun. I don’t necessarily want a crab, but these are beautiful.

[@breakfastatmilliways]

I have a very strong memory of getting hermit crabs at the Jersey shore back in the early nineties and a family friend picked the biggest one they had on sale. It latched on to his thumb, drew blood, and would not let go. The adults ended up running it under a hot tap because no one knew a thing about crabs and you just had this five year old flailing his crab attached hand around like wild screaming so they went for the first thing they thought of. In fairness it did work and the crab lived but in hindsight I feel terrible for it.

[@TheChickwithguns]

@@breakfastatmilliways I had to immerse my crab under water to get it to let go. It was the last crab I ever owned. Now I eat crab. I don’t play with crabs.😂

[@jessicapearson9479]

I have two hermits and absolutely love them!! They are fun to watch. They can live up to 40 years!! I would love to get these vampire crabs and Halloween Moon Crabs!!

[@21Kyzix12]

Really happy to see a vampire crab video. I've actually been planning on getting some myself and more info is always nice.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

That purple crab with cobalt blue is *GORGEOUS.* 🦀

[@lilliancassady8954]

You should do one of these videos on hermit crabs! I’d be super excited to watch

[@HeyChanelle]

weve got loads of babies in a heavily planted paladarium, i had no idea they only live 2 years though!!

[@blueplague5911]

I love them unconditionally

[@DeleightofThere]

Loved the Rene Auberjonois impressions at the end lol (he was the chef in the Little Mermaid)

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

How the heck did I not know this?!?

[@ewm000]

This man is a National Treasure!

[@melissao643]

5:58 Omg Clint collabed with Schaffrillas! 🦀

[@OlessanYT]

I was not expecting a LotR reference in a video about little crabs lol

[@shanrrosh]

Quite surprised at how handleable they turned out to be. They are not easy to find here though, and at around $40 a crab, not exactly cheap either, but my paludarium is under planning as it's currently empty and I guess some vampires will call it hope sometime soon-ish :) Thanks for this very informative vid! :D

[@chestbuster1987]

This channel is so awesome. Love the content. The colors of those little crabs is amazing!

[@dreyhawk]

I'm in love! Especially the purple one.

[@toastyregrets]

Hello Clint, I was wondering if you could do a video about velvet worms. They're invertebrates in their own order! I've been fascinated by them for a while and I would love a video on them.

[@ClintsReptiles]

I would love to, but I'd need to find one. I've never seen one in my life.

[@carcass2677]

Good idea

[@EG-hy9mv]

I've never seen a velvet worm irl but everything I've read about them makes them seem so interesting. They look like a less slimy, multi-legged slug, but they can shoot silk and trap prey with it. And at least one species(I think it's at least one) is a social pack hunter!

[@WolfieDawn]

​@@ClintsReptilesinstead of a velvet worm you could use a worm-on-a-string?

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I am fascinated by velvet worms. Their abilities are amazing and i like their textures and colors. Such cool creatures

[@elissacousland44]

Aww, Rene Auberjonois would have been impressed with your rendition of Louis the Chef's song to Sebastian. I too used to sing Le Poisson lol.

[@maryt.3273]

Just so you know, Clint, it's "Toodle-oo, le poisson, au revoir." 😁 But you did great!

[@ogrejd]

@13:00 - Yeah, tortoises are definitely generational pets. There's a gopher tortoise (named Gus) that's been living at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History since 1942 and is 101 years old. :) Used to love feeding him lettuce there when I was a kid in the 70s & 80s. :P

[@Mothobius]

Yo are you a fellow Nova Scotian? 💪 my boy Gus

[@indoplants7040]

Vampire crabs are so cool, I have 4, I love all crustaceans I have a lot them, including 2 coconut crabs!

[@armagedon0264]

I really like this guy he is like the perfect nerd which is a good thing. I could hang out with this guy all day and never get tired of listening to his information on animals.

[@Isaac-The-Colubrid]

I just got my first striped bark scorpion. You should do a video about them.

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

I wanted some of these so I set up a 10 gallon for 2 vampire crabs a couple years ago, and! Nobody had them, not even online for order (for less than $300 each) So I got red clawed crabs, got some salt and made the water brackish and they've been alive for almost 2 and a half years, we lost one so far but I got three, and the one just died last month One day I will set up a giant vampire grab vivarium

[@NecroGoblin-yl2fx]

DON'T keep them in a tank with water like we see here this is only for a short time display, they will end up drowning :( they are land crabs and live next to water, they need a setup much like you set up for dart frogs, but with a body of water deep enough for them to get fully submerged when molting. they also need high humidity, and only seek water for molding or if the humidity is not high enough. the water also is best with higher PH and GH levels. they are good climbers and like to dig, in the wild they dig tunnels down to 1-2 meters. the males are territorial and will chase away other males and females who don't want to mate, ofc if you have many together they can not form territories but i don't recommend keeping them like that. they are also very visual, so only keep one species of them, if you have multiple species together they can start wars one species vs the other. as for food they like to hunt, so small live pray like silverfish and curly winged flies are great for the adults, and springtails are also nice both as a cleaner and for food for the babies. reproduction. the female caries the babies some time after the eggs hatch, where they jump of when they are big enough. the adults eat the babies if they can catch them, but a lot of hiding places near the water feature where the adults can not get in and feeding live pray will lessen how many are eaten, though you can take the female out to another tank to drop the babies of, though they hide when they have eggs and carry the babies. size of tank. the bigger the better, and a longer one with more ground space is to be preferred, in this way you can make the water feature go from one end to the other end so that the crabs don't need to cross other crabs territory when molting. i have been breeding them for about 10 years now, and i can say there are breeders who breed so that we don't take from the wild. i'm only a hobby breeder not for money, but have had colonies live up to about 7 years without taking babies out, though they need a large tank for this and once a few years you need to add new blood to your colony :)

[@kit4524]

i have a paludarium of these guys, they breed like crazy, I saw at least 6 babies today (they also have live plants in there and mainly burrow on the land slide)

[@smorc65]

Crab-keeper here: like Clint says, don't mix species! They *will* KO each other without hesitation. (And vampire crab breeders are trying to prevent hybridization, which could make long-term captive conservation more difficult and create hybrids with washed out colors).

[@juliac3933]

oh no not washed out colors

[@Spectrulus]

I've actually been thinking about keeping some of these... This video makes me think it's a good idea. I never suspected a gorgeous arthropod would get such a high score! I kind of want to renovate my old 55 gallon into a crab paradise paladarium, with a rainbow of these little guys!

[@BenjaminMellor]

I think that would be a great idea. I renovated an old 20-gallon tank for a toad, and it worked out well. Now he has a water dish, substrate, and a few rocks to hide under.

[@-sevda]

it's my first time ever finding out this species. the purple one's too adorable. my favourite colour. it's delightful how the yellow eyes add as a complementary touch. 💜now, i have the urge to listen to crab rave.

[@Jellyfishs]

I love how it is eating stuff off of your hands! Adorable!

[@thatonepossum5766]

1:27 it was on this day that a learned, crabs have larvae.

[@M0torsagmannen]

i never in my life before considered having a pet crab. but these guys are adorable.

[@Fujoshi1412]

I tried looking these crabs up after a saw I video once. Didn’t pull up much which made me sad. Happy to see a video on them.

[@warotopelta1150]

I was just thinking about making a terrarium for vampire crabs, glad you made this video just in time!

[@troyshilanski380]

Lol shoutout to your dad. Got pinched by my friends hermit crab, maybe 9 or 10 and it was big and it hurt but didnt even break the skin. It just let me know. But that purple one you have is so pretty.

[@SpeedyakaLeah]

Thanks for introducing me to such a fascinating little creature!

[@rh_4m]

OMG!!!! I love these guys so much!!!! Thx so much for featuring them!!

[@zackmarkham4240]

With purple as my favorite color, I very much love the ones with purple!

[@willowtabby4926]

Oh my gosh, I LOVE their colouring, especially that dark purple/black one 😍

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

Side note: the greatest tragedy of the remake of Little Mermaid… Was the removal of the chef’s song!😂💔

[@taipansghost]

Me when my crab dies: I'm sad now😢 Mr. Mojo my Asian Water Monitor: Yep that's tragic, btw, you gonna eat that? 🤤🦀

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

As someone who had been pinched by my own pet hermit crabs, i can attest that one should not underestimate a crab's pinch, now matter how small😅

[@ryanwinters9375]

0:29 😂 I like how he knows that there’s always gonna be that one guy who is dumb enough to believe him

[@spicetea4060]

I'm currently living just an hour away from Lehi, so I might have to come by one of these days.

[@XIxCaptainKRulLT]

This seems like a mixture between reptile care and fish care. I've got quite a few years of experience with both, and have worked with crustaceans before, so this may be something I'd look into keeping sometime in the future.

[@Deathbysnusnu125]

Don't ever bump a vending machine with your butt if you have a ridge wallet in your back pocket. Apparently the glass will explode....

[@thesoupofthebrain2446]

so glad you got to these. my son has wanted them for years. i always trust your channel for good indormation

[@everydayistacotuesday9847]

YOU FINALLY MADE A VIDEO ON THEM OMG!! They're the coolest fellas ever i love them

[@hoofyrider]

I just did my monthly maintenance on my vampire crab tank then decided to take a break after when i saw this video uploaded. Good video! We have vampire crabs and disco vampire crabs in the tank and oh man, do they reproduce like no ones business. Started with 4 and now we have who knows how many. Ill see babies every now and then. I made a little island that takes up most of the 20g long tank we have them in, used dragon stone to make the border and filled it with some aquarium gravel, then put screen on that and topped it off with soil and plants. Turns out that they just dug a bunch of tunnels under the soil and into the gravel. On day 2 a bunch of excess gravel was out of the island and sitting on the sand outside. Kind of cool to think about them doing all that. The one downside to them, we dont see them much, but it is always nice to look in the tank and get surprised by one just kinda chilling on land. It's also fun to see them come out of their ground holes when i sprinkle fish food on the land for them. Pretty entertaining pet for the most part.

[@feraldelight]

What adorable little guys❤

[@rachaels8leggedwonders448]

I just circled back to this video (catching up on phylogeny phebruary) and I am so excited to see the beginning of the Ridge Wallet! ❤ Got my dad one, and I love mine.

[@kr00m]

Any chance getting a video on basic plant options and care for various enclosure setups?

[@Kari77251]

I’m a new viewer and I’ve been binging your videos. I’ve enjoyed them immensely, but it wasn’t until you sang my absolute favorite Disney movie song that I fell in love! Amazing!

[@GaleneIanthe]

As a hermit crab keeper, can confirm their claws are no joke. The very smallest one we've kept (he was no bigger than a quarter worth his legs spread out) gave my partner a nasty pinch at the base of his finger and held on for well over a minute. He had a tiny scar there for months after.

[@susanbecker5610]

I would love for Clint to calab with Crab Central Station and do a hermit crab video. I thought it was interesting that he said most, if not all, crab species eat their young. Hermit crabs don't.

[@GaleneIanthe]

@@susanbecker5610 Same! I love hermit crabs, and it would be wonderful to see his take on them, especially now that they're starting to be available captive bred. In fairness, I think land hermit crabs would happily snack on their young if they didn't release their eggs directly into the ocean. Once those babies find their way back to their parents, they've got their first shells and probably have a much easier time defending themselves. The adult crabs certainly don't hold back if they find another crab molting.

[@susanbecker5610]

@@GaleneIanthe I watched a Crab Central Station video about their captive bred crabs coming to land. They had the babies separated for a while because they were concerned about this, but they wouldn't change shells as they grew so they tried putting them with the adult crabs. Then the babies started changing shells. It was really cute, because they also talked about how the babies would choose one adult and just follow them everywhere. Seeing the little ones next to the jumbos was really cool. It's interesting, because one of the stipulations to adopting captive bred hermies, is not that you have to have small crabs.

[@GaleneIanthe]

@@susanbecker5610 Oh my! That's adorable! When we had 4 of them, we'd bought two young ones who were significantly smaller than the two we already had. Once they passed quarantine and got to be put in with the adults, we noticed they each paired off with one of the bigger crabs. Two of them in particular were practically attached to each other.

[@SpaceEndeavour]

Please do a best pet mammal video on horses!

[@katelillo1932]

These are incredible 😮 I have a 55 gallon bow front in my garage and now I’m tempted to fill it with crabs 🦀

[@e.s.lavall9219]

Thanks for covering these funky little guys. I keep seeing them at expos and am too scared to buy them because I didn't know anything about them.

[@Me_Caity]

Yayyyyy!!!! I’ve been waiting for this! Thank you this was so helpful!

[@AND-od5jt]

6:22 Afaik they're more into step dancing/ break dancing...

[@Fastollis]

I have an unused ten-gallon I’ve been considering converting into a vampire crab enclosure. This was a really helpful video for a first-timer like me!

[@FischBlubbBlubb]

i have quite a few in a densely planted / bioactive 30 Gallon Paludarium. It's basically self sustaining. I think they mainly live off plant matter and Springtails in there. Sometimes i'll add cucumber slices or something, but more for boosting Springtail population. I've got lots of Pothos, it's thriving in there like crazy. It's a low tech tank with just a light (and a heater in winter).

[@risel56]

Seeing a crab walk forward feels cursed.

[@bugtalk84]

Wow, those crabs look so cool. This is the perfect Halloween themed video for this channel.

[@WiglyWorm]

holy cow this is really enjoyable content. Love your wit and obvious passion.

[@erichtomanek4739]

So Vampire Crabs are the Aragorn of the Pet Crab world.

[@janawild4582]

Hey Clint, what about a leech video? Some of us leech keepers realize what beautiful and unique animals they are, but most people are horrified at the thought of having one of as a pet😂 Anyway, enjoyed your vampire crab video. I’ve been thinking about getting some for a while.